University of New Mexico Professor Manuel Hermenegildo, who holds the Prince of Asturias Endowed Chair in the departments of computer science and electrical engineering, received the Aritmel Prize in Granada, Spain, at the National Computer Science and Engineering Research Conference last week. More than 1,600 Spanish researchers attended the conference.
Photo: Professor Manuel Hermenegildo
The Aritmel Prize is the only award in Spain specifically for computing research. Hermenegildo is the first recipient of the award, which will be given annually.
The prize goes to a researcher for “outstanding scientific contributions in the area of computer science and engineering."
Hermenegildo was chosen for contributions in the areas of software development, programming languages, and automatic program parallelization, areas that are followed, cited and applied by researchers worldwide.
“I feel very honored to receive this recognition the first time it has been awarded,” Hermenegildo said. “I am grateful to my graduate students who are an important part of my excellent research team.”
The award takes its name from the "Electromechanical Arithmometer," one of the first digital calculators, which was designed by Leonardo Torres-Quevedo by perfecting the original ideas of Charles Babbage.
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